The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-10-20
PARIS IN THE SUMMER.
A CORRESPONDENT THINKS IT THEN
MOST DELIGHTFUL.
Tho Broad, Well Shaded, Clean Strcots.
and the Theatres That Never Close-A
Ride on tho Seine Boats-Weddinp
Parties-The Dc Lesseps Family.
Especial Correspondence

| "S'''iei itl9 nce Ill, propose looking back
over tho past three months and giving your
readers some idea of Paris as a summer re-
sort. This is the second time since came to
| Europe that have spent juno, July and Au-
gust within tho walls of this city; SO ought
to know what | am talking about.
| w ell III the first place, Paris is ono of tho
coo'est spots i'll all Europe in which to pass
bE2 not season." provided you live In tho
| nigh, open Arc do Triompho quarter, where
'no streets arc broad and vol sprinklctl,
"hcio INC many Shade trees purify the air
ana wlacre there are no nuisanccs of any kind.
My thermometer has never been higher them
| elghty-five and I havo always slept with Mt
least sheet and white spread over me A
| spring overcoat has often felt comfortable
| alter shutdown, and more than onco NV 1oo,,
| nave felt better for robe when ont drivinc,
| III the evening. A turn in the Bots after 8
| o'clock at night has moro than once beer, a
| li1tlc 700 cool for perfect Pleasure, and tho
| pfeeze on the Seine boats has occasionally
| oeen just cold enough to hint that a descent
| 10 inc cabin below would be prudent act.
MOI SO many years ago Parisians of the
wealthy classes used to spend the summer in
their beloved city. And they showed their
| goobsensc III so doing, for it is only from
May to November that tho Paris clinlat, is
agreeable The rest of tho year it is cloudv
rainy and chilly, if not absolutely cold
| But fashion has changed all this Many
| people who are quite sensible in other thinrs
| would be ashamed to be caught in Paris dur
| ing the summer months. SO they omit
AIRY and well furnished apartments and
| crowd into stuffy and bare hotels in some go
calieo 1ashlonable watering place. Let mo
! leii you some OF the things that thoy miss
nave already remarked that YOU do not
surfer from the heat during q Paris sum-
| MGR But besides this negative pleasure YOU
| also enjoy positive ones To be s,lrc. most of
| the theaters arc closed. at least during .Tulv
and August. But must say that, for one.
| do not care for the play house during the
dog days However. the famous Theatre
Francois and the magnificent now Oner,
house do not, as q rule shut their doors all
the year round So even in summer. Won
can sec the best acting in the world and listen
to all the grand operas by staying right horo
| III farls. L know professor of modern lam
| guaSes IN one of our great American univcr-
| SUES who comes to this city almost every
| summer to study on tho stage = the Fraucais
| the masterpieces of Moliorc, Racine and
| Cornclllc, which he teaches in his classes DIR
! ing the winter months
| II you enjoy light amusc1nonts there are
the outdoor concert gardens in tho Cbomps
| Elysces, the monster Hippodronc and ill.,,
Summer circus all better than anvtbing of
the kind to be found in American cities Tho
magniticently managed Hippoclrone has been
! exhibiting all this season a troop of Arabs
and 50 natural and Grandiosc is the spectaclo
that the average Traveller gets a moro correct
Idea of desert life sitting in n comfortable
seat at the Hlppofromo than he would if he
We're to spend a fortnight in iourneyin1
! through Algeria.
The swiftly flying boats on the Seine arc
another dehghtiul source of summer pleasure
hen no air Is stirring, you have simply to
pay thrcc or four sous and sit on the deck Of
a mouchc-which means fly, and YOU i'm
mediately create q breeze Nor is this all
You arc not only famed and kept cool, but
your eyes arc RECALLED with an ever changing
panorama on the right hand and left as Won
speed down the river, traversing the whole
length of the city, passing beyond it into tho
| open country, where the high stone ouavs
and walls give place to low green banks. or
| steep hills richly wooded and dotted VITA
picturesque hanlets and stately mansions |
never weary Of this sail on the Seine But it
| Is only on warm summers day that it
affords unalloycd pleasure The boats run
all winter, but after Oct sane man never
takes them except forced to do So 1t is too
much ike crossing the channel in November
or sitting on tho deck of an ocean steamer in
| a fog.
Another agreeable summer resort at Paris
| Is the Garden Of Acclimation, where good
band plays once or twice week in the after
noon, and where you can study very fair
geological collection. But to mo tho most in
! terosting feature OF the garden is the people
whom You find there. 1t is favoritc rcnde-
/ vous for wedding parties of the lower classes.
and tho white costume of the bride, crowned
with a wreath Of artificial orange blossoms,
! contrasts very strongly with tho black attjr..
of her new lord and of the guests and rcla-
| tivcs. 1t is delightful to sec how these simple
/ people enjoy themselves The bride will some
/ times take q ride on the big elephant, while
! tho groom follows at her side on a little dom
KEY, and the rest of tho party follow on foot
| convulsed with laughter And sometimes YOU
will meet tho same old elephant bearing tho
whole de Lesseps family on his broad back
These interesting boys and girls seem to on
/ newly welded Parisians. | scarcely cvo,. ron
der through the pleasant SPOT without on
countering either these children or these
Darbys and Joalls. and often both
And still another charming characteristic
| refer to tho influx Of Americans A friond
i of mine once said to me: IF you stand long
enough at the corner of the Grand Boulevard
| and the Chaussee dAntin you will meet
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